Fema Quotes

We`re just waiting for FEMA to give us the go-ahead, ... We have more than 1,000 manufactured homes ready. We want to keep those in the state so Mississippians can help Mississippians.

- Jennifer Hall

FEMA requires strong leadership and experience because state and local governments rely on them, ... When you don`t have trained, qualified people in those positions, the program suffers as a whole.

- Trina

FEMA requires strong leadership and experience because state and local governments rely on them,

- Trina

It looks like FEMA is going to accept this re-study we and Flood Control are doing now.

- Dick Smith

FEMA has promised us 100 percent reimbursement on our expenses. The governor said he didn`t want to hear about one human need that did not get met because of the paperwork.

- Jim Harris

We`re hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little longer while we get more housing online in New Orleans. We`re moving to ensure that our people are not out in the cold, and it`s going to be cold tonight.

- Mark Smith

We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.

- Robert Black

FEMA is still busing people toward Texas because we are not at capacity yet. The governor has said we`re getting close to capacity, but that is less about numbers and more about management.

- Robert Black

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

- Thad Cochran

I do know that we have been contacted by FEMA and they are looking for supply for caskets. I do not know how many. We have told them that we would work with them.

- Wendy Wilson

This is a very active disaster season for FEMA. The men and women of this organization are ready to respond anywhere and everywhere.

- Mike Brown

We haven`t received any for quite a while. We haven`t received any official FEMA evacuees other than the medical evacuees that came in Friday morning -- the one shipment to Louisville and the one from Lexington.

- Buddy Rogers

I`m tired of the FEMA-bashing. All you hear is that FEMA didn`t do enough. What people don`t understand is that FEMA had a game plan, but when the devastation was so widespread, their game plan kind of went out the window.

- Mark Bowden

After meeting with Louisiana officials last week, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, quote, `Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response.` He continued, quote, `I`m not saying that myself.` Then I`ll say it. If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water, forcing many to steal for mere survival. Their bodies would not have been left to float in putrid water. They would have been rescued and relocated a hell of a lot faster than this. Period. I mean, reporters and crews are getting to stranded people, and government and military agencies can`t? Why don`t the networks run FEMA? When I saw pictures of black people taking things from stores, my first thought was: `How are those Nikes necessary for your survival?` And then it hit me: People need shoes and clothing. Some escaped the floods with just the clothing on their backs. We have American citizens, not `refugees` from an underdeveloped country, waiting for food, water, shelter, and electricity for four, five, six days.

- Nancy Giles

If you don`t wait on FEMA, if you don`t wait on the federal government, things can get done faster,

- Michael Lambert

You have people waiting for five or six hours to have a operator come online, ... At least FEMA gave people the opportunity to apply over the Internet.

- Chris Roberts

If you`ve got $2,300 from FEMA and you`re in San Francisco, you`re in trouble.

- Brian Sullivan

We`d prefer to wait until the end of basketball season and then rip the floor up, but we have a short window to get it ready because we`re probably going to have to have graduation in the gym again this spring. There`s so much uncertainty with FEMA funding that when we`re told to move, we`re going to move as quickly as we can to get FEMA to pay 100 percent of the cost.

- Mike Davis

We do have people that are looking into it, and we`re optimistic that FEMA is going to pick up 100 percent of the cost.

- Mike Davis

The part that is related to FEMA we can get back, but trips to the zoo, to the mall and to the movies we have to incur, ... I`ll have to find the money by cutting something else because we will not say no to helping evacuees.

- David Hill

There`s no FEMA. No Red Cross. No help. People are sick. The water is like toxic gumbo. We`re the forgotten little town that got blown away.

- James Gibson

There`s no FEMA, no Red Cross, no help,

- James Gibson

the FEMA of the defense department.

- George Packer

While we continue working toward our mission of assisting Florida in its recovery from the six hurricanes that have impacted the state in the last year, we -- like the rest of the federal government and the American people -- are doing our best to help the nation respond to Katrina`s unprecedented challenge. A well-staffed call center will strengthen FEMA`s ability to respond quickly to the pressing needs of the millions of people affected by Katrina.

- Scott Morris

We have received very strong feedback from the state that 21 homes in Clyde will be bought out, but we won`t have anything official until we get the grant agreement from FEMA later this month.

- David Teague

You can bet if 3,000 counties responded to the Gulf Coast, they would do a better job than FEMA did.

- David Weaver

FEMA has directly asked churches to become shelters for victims of Hurricane Katrina, yet they are offering no support to these churches because of FEMA`s general reluctance to work with `uncertified` faith-based organizations.

- Tony Perkins

The man who is here with, he`s helped me. A couple of other people has helped me. I`m waiting on FEMA to give me their part, because the president said you`re entitled to 2000 dollars and that check has been mailed.

- Ray Johnson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans. Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshalling the assets.

- Paul Anderson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans, ... Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshaling the assets.

- Paul Anderson

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

- Andrew Leventis

Any time there is a natural disaster, FEMA is trotted out as an example of how well government programs work. In reality, by using taxpayer dollars to provide disaster relief and subsidized insurance, FEMA itself encourages Americans to build in disaster-prone areas and makes the rest of us pick up the tab for those risky decisions. Americans should not be forced to pay the cost of rebuilding oceanfront summer homes.

- Andy Daigle

Dealers will sell hundreds at a time, usually routed through by FEMA,

- Andy MacPhail

(In his column) FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag; Municipal Bond Holders at Risk, ... in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, what has become apparent in New Orleans is the inability of the local, county and city law enforcement to restore the rule of law.

- Anna Bigun

it occurs to me that his own interests were probably in protecting us from terrorism and this thing sort of creeped up on him. Remember, his department is new, his management of FEMA is new, this is the first FEMA-like crisis that he has had to deal with in his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security. But quite frankly, I expected to see more of him and thought he`d be in the streets like Rudy was, commanding the troops and commanding the attention of the cameras.

- Anna Turley

My role will be to coordinate all recovery efforts from making sure the city gets its FEMA reimbursements to finding other state and federal funding, ... I will make sure that what actions the city takes are at maximum reimbursement.

- Anne Belec

I think you can be excused for having some lapses, ... You need to put that in the context of the overall disaster that you`re dealing with here, and FEMA certainly gets passing grades.

- Anne Messitte

that in the vast majority of hurricanes, other than those in Florida in 2004, complaints are rife that FEMA has vastly underpaid hurricane victims. The Frances overpayments are questionable given the timing of the election and Florida`s importance as a battleground state.

- Anne Phillips

They all say they`re waiting for response from FEMA. It`s quite pathetic to have that lack of response from FEMA.

- Anthony Chapman

FEMA does want to help pay for the cleanup.

- Anthony Gikas

(Unfortunately, banks located in the most heavily storm-damaged areas might not be able to open or restore online services for some time. That applies especially to small banks and thrifts without a regional or national network.) If this applies to you, ... you really should contact one of the emergency service organizations, such as FEMA or the Red Cross , and request assistance.

- Anthony Marshall

FEMA has a responsibility to protect lives and property, and to ensue that disaster re-building efforts use the best data available. We also have responsibility to ensure that federal tax dollars are spent wisely and cost-effectively. It makes no sense to rebuild using outdated data.

- Anthony Richards

FEMA has a responsibility to ensure that disaster rebuilding efforts use the best data available... It makes no sense to rebuild using outdated data.

- Anthony Richards

FEMA strongly recommends communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flooding during future hurricanes.

- Anthony Richards

FEMA strongly recommends that communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flooding during future hurricanes. FEMA provides this kind of advisory information to local governments -- but ultimately it is state and local officials, working with their citizens, who make final decisions on land use and other building code requirements.

- Anthony Richards

For five days we didn`t need FEMA, the Red Cross or the National Guard, ... The neighborhood took care of itself.

- Archibald Rutledge

(FEMA directed all of the flights to Lackland Air Force Base outside of San Antonio, Evans said. He said that 11 U.S. airlines and Air Canada had offered to help but that constraints at the air fields severely limited the number of flights.) It`s a very fluid situation out there, and we`re hoping to ramp up quickly, ... But New Orleans is not running like a normal metropolitan airport right now.

- Ariosto

We don`t have details on how to apply for FEMA assistance or how to contact the Red Cross or the Army Corps of Engineers or any other public or private relief agencies.

- Arlene Melton

I know we had a lot of regularly scheduled production in the pipeline and we haven`t produced that many FEMA units because we just don`t have the capacity.

- Arne Ljungqvist

We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.

- Athena Starwoman